[gdal-dev] Call for discussion: RFC88: Use GoogleTest framework for C/C++ unit tests

[Even Rouault]

Hi Mateusz,

TUT was a very sensible choice at the time you implemented it, and it 
has been very useful up to now !

Even

Le 17/11/2022 à 18:02, Mateusz Loskot a écrit :
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 19:42, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>> Text at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/6720
>>
>> The document proposes and describes conversion of the existing C/C++
>> autotest suite to use the `GoogleTest
>> framework <https://github.com/google/googletest>`__.
>>
>> GoogleTest is a popular and maintained framework for C/C++ test
>> writing, that is a better replacement for the `TUT framework
>> <https://github.com/mrzechonek/tut-framework>`__ that we use currently.
> +1 Mateusz
>
> It was me who 'polluted' GDAL with TUT and here it is why I did it:
> It was a very long time ago to support porting GDAL (and GEOS too)
> to Windows CE platform which was very limited in terms of C and C++
> support. And. we also had to develop some C library routines
> https://wcelibcex.sourceforge.net/
> And, Python for Windows CE was very limited.
> And, it was much easier to debug C/C++ than Python,
> So, I decided to start C/C++ counterpart of the autotest suite.
> At that time, TUT was small, portable, feature-complete
> framework that we incorporated by copying its single header.
>
> Since the C++ autotest is still alive, switching to a modern test
> framework is much desired and Google Test is sensible choice.
> I see no reason to stay with TUT, which is rather a niche
> library nowadays.
>
> Best regards,

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